An English Broadcaster and a natural historian is awarded Indira Gandhi Peace Prize 2019 by former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on 7 September, 2020 at a virtual event. Sonia Gandhi, Congress President was also present in the virtual event. She told about David Attenborough that he is one of Nature’s “most Staunch conscience keepers” for over half a century.
She further said in a speech that “We all know David through his prodigious creativity in educating the humankind with brilliant films and books about the natural world. And he has, of late, been the most sensible voice warning us that we, more than anything else, are responsible for the accelerating threat to the environment on our planet.”
She also stated that “When environmental protection has become all the more imperative, when climate change and continued loss of biodiversity is threatening livelihoods and public health, indeed life on earth, there could not have been a more appropriate choice for an award in her name than Sir David Attenborough.”
David Attenborough while accepting the Indira Gandhi Peace Prize 2019 said: “We have to change from being nationalists to being international.”
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Facts about Indira Gandhi Peace Prize Award
The Prestigious award is also known as Indira Gandhi Prize or Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development. It is accorded annually by Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust. It is presented to individuals or organisations to recognise their creative efforts towards promoting international peace, development and a new international economic order. It is also awarded to ensuring that scientific discoveries are used for the larger goods of humanity and growing or enlarging the scope of freedom. The prize carries a citation and monetary award of Rs. 25 lakh.
List of the awardees of Indira Gandhi Peace Prize
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Name of Awardees |
Year |
About the Awardees |
| Parliamentarians for Global Action | 1986 | |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | 1987 | Former Soviet Union Leader |
| Gro Harlem Brundtland | 1988 | Former Prime Minister of Norway |
| UNICEF | 1989 | |
| Sam Nujoma | 1990 | First President of Namibia |
| Rajiv Gandhi | 1991 | Former Prime Minister of India |
| Saburo Okita | 1992 | Japanese Economist |
| Vaclav Havel | 1993 | First President of the Czech Republic |
| Trevor Huddleston | 1994 | Anti-Apartheid Activist |
| Olusegun Obasanjo | 1995 | 12th President of Nigeria |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres | 1996 | Voluntary Organisation |
| Jimmy Carter | 1997 | 39th President of the United States |
| Muhammad Yunus | 1998 | Founder of Grameen Bank |
| MS Swaminathan | 1999 | Indian Agricultural Scientist |
| Mary Robinson | 2000 | 7th President of Ireland |
| Sadako Ogata | 2001 | Former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |
| Shridath Ramphal | 2002 | 2nd Commonwealth Secretary-General |
| Kofi Annan | 2003 | 7th United Nations Secretary-General |
| Maha Chakri Sirindhorn | 2004 | Princess of Thailand |
| Hamid Karzai | 2005 | 12th President of Afghanistan |
| Wangari Maathai | 2006 | Environmental and Political activist |
| Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation | 2007 | |
| Mohamed ElBaradei | 2008 | Former Director-General of the IAEA |
| Sheikh Hasina | 2009 | Prime Minister of Bangladesh |
| Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva | 2010 | Ex-President of Brazil |
| Ela Bhatt | 2011 | Founder of SEWA |
| Ellen Johnson Sirleaf | 2012 | President of Liberia |
| Angel Merkel | 2013 | Chancellor of Germany |
| Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) | 2014 | |
| UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHRC) | 2015 | |
| Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh | 2017 | Former Prime Minister of India |
| Centre for Science and Environment | 2018 | |
| David Attenborough | 2019 |
An English broadcaster |
